Medicare Advantage has steadily grown over the past decade, and now encompasses more than half of all seniors eligible for Medicare. However, over the past year, the industry has faced significant headwinds, which as stymied some payers’ expansion plans. These challenges range from regulatory changes impacting payments to an ongoing spike in utilization that has ...

Oxford University Press has chosen “brain rot” as its word of the year. The word is defined as “supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as a result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging. Also: something characterized as likely to lead to such ...

For the last 11 years, Nevadans have signed up for health insurance through an exchange where private companies offer various plans from which to choose. These days the marketplace is known as Health Link and the latest numbers show 97,000 Nevadans, or about 10% more people, will have healthcare coverage by January 1, 2025. “One ...

The PBM Act would make CVS, Cigna and UnitedHealth — and any other companies that own health insurers or PBMs — sell pharmacy assets.

Enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans are currently set to expire after 2025, and a new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that their expiry could drive up premiums across the individual market.

President-elect Donald Trump and his allies make no secret of their disdain toward federal agencies and their desire to fundamentally disrupt the regulatory state. The new administration plans to rely on unorthodox health official picks Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz to shape, and remake, healthcare in Trump’s second term, but administrative law ...